Putin hosted six of the 22 voting members of the FIFA executive committee in the weeks before the December 2010 vote.

In helping the United States bid eventually beaten by Qatar, then-President Barack Obama hosted a total of three FIFA voters at the White House in two separate visits.

Most of those who took part in the 2010 vote have since been banned for unethical conduct, indicted on corruption charges by the U.S. Department of Justice, or remain under scrutiny by Swiss federal prosecutors who have 25 ongoing investigations involving more than 170 bank transactions suspected as money laundering.

Garcia's document was the basis for the wider Swiss investigation after FIFA handed it over in November 2014.